Labor candidate for Denison Madeleine Ogilvie has called for the Pontville Detention Centre to be re-opened.Source: News Limited

HUMAN rights lawyer Madeleine Ogilvie has called for the re-opening of Pontville detention centre, after an asylum seeker told her she lost her unborn baby after being denied medical attention at an interstate facility.

Ms Ogilvie, a Labor candidate for Denison, said the Pontville detention centre should be reopened for women and children.

In a letter to Ms Ogilvie via Facebook, the woman alleged she suffered a miscarriage after repeated requests for medical help were ignored.

She said she was about 12 weeks’ pregnant when she ­arrived on Christmas Island at the start of September and first asked for medical help when she started feeling pains two days later.

“I asked them to transfer me to the hospital … but they refused and told me there is no sonography equipments on an island,’’ she wrote.

Two nights later a nurse called the hospital, but it was too late as the fetus had died.